#ourself

When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#also #become #first #first step #follows

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right? ↗

— George Orwell

#any #appears #cannot #creed #draw

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#perhaps #reminding #thing #you #yourself

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#deepest #expose #fear #free #freedom

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself. ↗

— Marsha Norman

#gift #giving #kind #knowing #knowledge

Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#being #dress #get #kind #like

As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#ask #play #position #put #role

Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out. ↗

— Alva Noto

#choose #go #inevitably #limit #off

You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#crowd #even #isolate #want #you

It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going. ↗

— Alex O'Loughlin

#chest #cut #down #else #get